Dave, thanks for posting those! Any indication which SKO (set, kit or outfit) they were part of? I want to find out, but don’t know if a source to tap to start digging through. Twertsy’s great site is aimed at civilian tool catalogs, not military, and I’ve never found info like we need for this on military-info.com.

Those are post-war, no earlier than October 1949, to be exact. I used to have one, and others have posted them before, and I have written about it fairly extensively on several threads, and yet didn't think to include them here. So, it's a good thing you brought them up.

The research part of this hobby is funny. There is so much that has been accomplished, and yet so much more to do, that the things you discovered in deep dives in the past year or so tend to diminish the intensity of the things you discovered in deep dives several years earlier. This is actually the second time I forgot my research (aided in no small part by a Tom data point) on the 8-G-620 TPG. The first time, during the writing of White, Vol 5, Chapter 40, was a tad bigger oops! I meant to include a warning about the 8-G-620 in the section on the 8-G-615. But remembered too late to make it to printing.

Here it is in its unpublished entirety!

"Schrader and Syracuse continued to provide general service type tire pressure gauges to Willys after the war, to include a gauge designed, per the 1949 ORD 7, for “zero weather zones.” This tire pressure gage is physically identical to the 8-G-615 on the outside, but has a different government stock number (8-G-620), and has “8-G-620” embossed on the neck of the gauge just above the nozzle. The 8-G-620 tire pressure gauge was introduced sometime between 2 August 1945, which is the last known wartime reference, in ORD 5-3-2, of the 8-G-615, and 15 October 1949, the first known reference, in ORD 7, of 8-G-620. These 8-G-620 gauges may look the part, but they are post-war and incorrect for the MB factory toolkit."

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The pace of filling the spreadsheet has certainly slowed, but it still gets data added. More and more tools out there, it's just a matter of finding them, and then knowing what era any particular tool is from. It sure helps when someone has the kind of research already done like for these TPGs

Here's a 41-W-3328 I found yesterday. These were issued to every higher echelon tool-set, including 2-1, 2-2, 3-1, 3-2, 4-2, and the AF sets. Based on comparison to a Plomb branded and Navy marked example that Don has, I am fairly certain this was made by Plomb.